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The longest route on Stone Depot, and the left-most route as you are hiking downhill. Start on a low-angle slab with the obvious bolt line.

Pitch 1 (5.4): Slab and clip your way to chains, or link this with... Pitch 2 (5.6): More slabbing and clipping to a nice stance below the short headwall. Pitches one and two are easily combined with a 70m rope. Pitch 3 (5.7+): I've seen literature detailing this pitch as 5.8, but it felt quite soft for the grade. Make some steeper moves through eyebrows, then run up easier ground to chains. Pitch 4 (5.5): Climb up featured rock through the next bulge, belay at rings. Pitch 5 (5.4): Water groovin' to a tree. Pitches four and five can be barely combined with a 70m rope.

Hiked all the way in and every route on Stone Depot was wet or icy except this one, we climbed the first 4 pitches but the last pitch was covered in ice so we backed off of it. Just as well it looked as if you could pretty much walk up it. The route does offer excellent views of Looking Glass and John's Rock but as far as the climbing goes it basically has one or two moves on the third pitch that require some finesse (it definitely feels soft to be a 5.8), the rest of it is stupidly easy, although it would be excellent for beginners or to rehearse multi-pitch skills.
Jan 27, 2013

Great route for practicing multipitch for beginners. The 5th pitch is pretty much a walk off and it leaves you hanging on the rappel. We had to get creative to get to P4. If I do it again I'll rap from P4 and call it a day.
Oct 16, 2015

To hopefully clarify a few of the above statements, if you link pitches one and two, and three and four, and skip the fifth pitch, you only need a 60m rope. I'd also say it is barely harder than Trinacious, and the bolts were well spaced (could have had more runout honestly).
Aug 29, 2016

This is a good route choice for beginners - mainly due to the easy nature of the route and the bolted belays the entire way. P3 is the only pitch that really has anything that feels technical and it has several bolts through the 5.7 terrain. If you top the route out and rap from the tree you should bring a long thing of cord to wrap around the tree - a 70M rope will NOT reach the next rap station if you just wrap your rope around the tree (which is not recommended anyways) - for this reason the last pitch isn't really worth the trouble. Overall an okay route.
Apr 18, 2017

Great beginner multi pitch sport route. All the hardware you need and bolted belays with chains to make the raps easy. I would highly recommend if you're looking to practice. The last pitch is basically a hike so if you're concerned about not having enough rope you can skip it. We traversed, on rope, to the anchors for grove connection from the top and lower/climbed back up before rapping off the N x NW anchors.
Oct 4, 2017